Lord,
you raise young men to answer your call to defend their homeland. Your child Matt is one such person. Be with him during his time of service, and keep him safe in your loving hands.
But also, Lord, be with his family and all who love him. Ease their hearts and soothe their worries, and keep them safe until his return.
Lord, you are our life and our hope. Open our eyes that we may always realize that you are there waiting, never deserting us, even in the darkest moments.
In the name of Jesus, Amen.
My nephew is a Marine who spent a year in Iraq, and just recently arrived home, safe and sound. We were all praying for him daily.
I will pray Claytay.My granddaughter Karen was there last year and she is home now.Please keep me updated if you can,God bless,fatima
Adding prayers!!!
I'll keep him and your family in my prayers.
My prayers are with your cousin, with you, and with your family.
For Matt
Thank you Matt! May God bless your family, Claytay. The Warrior's Psalm:
Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
who trains my hands for battle
my fingers for war;
My safeguard and my fortress,
my stronghold, my deliverer,
My shield, in whom I trust,
who subdues peoples under me.
Lord, what are mortals that you notice them;
human beings, that you take thought of them?
They are but a breath;
their days are like a passing shadow.
Lord, incline your heavens and come;
touch the moutains and make them smoke.
Flash forth lightning and scatter my foes;
shoot your arrows and rout them.
Reach out your hand from on high;
deliver me from the many waters;
rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.
Their mouths speak untruth;
their right hands are raised in lying oaths.
O God, a new song I will sing to you;
on a ten-stringed lyre I will play for you.
You give victory to kings;
you delivered David your servant.
From the menacing sword deliver me;
rescue me from the hands of foreign foes.
Their mouths speak untruth;
their right hands are raised in lying oaths.
May our sons be like plants
well nurtured from their youth,
Our daughters, like carved columns,
shapely as those of the temple.
May our barns be full
with every kind of store.
May our sheep increase by thousands,
by tens of thousands in our fields;
may our oxen be well fattened.
May there be no breach in the walls,
no exile, no outcry in our streets.
Happy the people so blessed;
happy the people whose God is the Lord.
-Psalm 144
Joining in prayer.
Prayers for him and a huge "thank you" to him.